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inous substance, to be applied to sores, inflamed parts of the body, etc.; a cataplasm. "Poultice relaxeth the pores." Bacon.

A poultice. [Obs.] W. Temple.

Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.

A kind of piquant sauce or salad dressing resembling mayonnaise.

An ointment used in farriery.

To mold or shape anew or again; to reshape.

See Remold.

A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios.

A little roll; a roll of coins put up in paper, or something resembling such a roll.

A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.

See Rolly-pooly.

Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.

Same as Semolina.

pposition of an actual fact; also, to express moral obligation (see Shall); e. g.: they should have come last week; if I should go; I should think you could go. "You have done that you should be sorry for." Shak.

the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.

Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.

Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.

To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion. The smoldering dust did round about him smoke. Spenser.

Being in a state of suppressed activity; quiet but not dead. Some evil chance Will make the smoldering scandal break and blaze. Tennyson.

The state of smoldering.